Blues Piano Lessons! A Course In Blues Piano & Improvisation (Udemy.com)
Step-by-step piano lessons for beginners. Learn to play without sheet music. Have fun with this properly planned course.
Created by: Arthur Bird
Last updated November 2025
What you will learn
- This course will take you from the basics to being able to play Blues Piano with freedom and style.
- You will learn the skills to be able to improvise, on the spot, playing by ear.
- 12 Bar Blues - Building up in stages to advanced levels of playing.
- Walking bass lines & blues licks.
- Throughout the course you will develop your ability to play using different rhythms.
- The exercises in the course will help with to build hand strength, stamina and dexterity.
- These piano lessons will teach you how to play blues solo's with speed and skill, and most of all have fun playing the piano!
How it compares
Against the other 45 rated Udemy courses in Piano on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 82% of them
- Reviews1,038#8 of 46 by number of reviews
- Length4.2 hoursshorter than 48% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 82% of them
Course Description
Ever wanted to sit down at the piano, without sheet music, and just play? Don't fancy spending years learning to read music? Maybe you've already learned in the past but fancy a different approach?
Why not try my course in Blues Piano & Improvisation? If it's not for you, 100% money back guarantee, no questions asked!
Specially created for those of you wanting to learn Blues piano, using a mixture of songs and exercises, the piano lessons build up in achievable stages and will encourage you to eventually be able to improvise cool blues piano on the spot. Yes that's right, by the end of the course you will be able to improvise blues piano, and it will all be coming out of your own head!
The tutorials are perfect for learning piano, with the use of MIDI keyboard on the top half of the screen so you can see the piano note names every time the instructor plays a key.
The course starts from the beginning, learning basics such as note names, fingering and chords. You'll learn the blues scale and will be given exercises to help you integrate it into your playing. You'll be taught how to count in musical terms, and how to use different rhythms.
The 12 Bar Blues is taught throughout the course, from a simple pattern at the start building throughout to an advanced and impressive sounding style by the end. The course is designed to build up in stages, giving you the skills, and teaching you how to incorporate them into your playing along the way, until ultimately you'll be able to improvise on the piano with freedom and style.
Blues Piano eBook - Play Blues Piano in Every Key
This simple guide has illustrations, notation and fingering suggestions for the minor blues scale in every key. It also includes illustrations of the the I, IV, V chord positions and 12 bar blues chord progressions in every key as well. Perfect to print off and have as a handy reference at your piano or keyboard.
UPDATE - Now includes additional eBook download with music notation for all blues riffs, licks and exercises within the course.
Here's what my students say:
Joe - 5 Stars - This course is one of the best so far. I highly recommend this course to anyone just starting out. This is my second course of Arthurs and I cant what for more to come. Thanks , YOU ROCK!
Tony G - 5 Stars - Super easy to follow, great visual and very lively presentation, makes it interesting and fun to learn.
Fer Estelle - 5 Stars - This courses is exactly what I was looking for. It's easy to follow hands position on the piano and keys thanks to the second keyboard. Arthur talks very clearly and explains just what has to be explain at the right moment and make the thing grow without any pain. Very quickly I realized I was playing! I really recommend this course.
Bonnie Barton - 5 Stars - Its a great course and fun to learn. Very knowledgeable, delivers high quality content and is enthusiastic and loves what he does. I never thought I could play the blues but I am definitely learning and enjoying it heaps.
Tuomas Yli-Olli - 5 Stars - I think the course was surprisingly good. There was enough content to give you basic tools for blues piano playing which you can take then further by learning from other material. There was also enough variety in content to keep me interested the whole time.
Enroll now, and be playing piano by the end of the day!
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
1,038 Reviews
Arthur Bird
Hi, I'm Arthur and I've been playing the piano for over 25 years. After achieving Grade 8 with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, I started touring as a session player in theatre shows all over the United Kingdom. As well as this I have lots of experience in recording studios, and with bands have played music all over the world, from the USA, Scandinavia to Australia. I've been teaching piano for over 15 years now, and I'm also an approved tutor with the City of York Arts Council.
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Reviews
By Dominik Myszkowski on 3/15/2023
Although I am already a little bit above the level of this course in the blues, I still find it very useful and I refreshed many techniques. There are many useful exercises which will improve agility over keyboard and of course many blues techniques which will make You play good. The course is structured very well and not boring at all. I really recommend this one, especially if You are new to blues.
By Alexandre Denommee on 1/23/2022
Absolutely loved it, but I would have appreciated a bit more variety or explanation on different common keys, or how to transpose what we learned. still highly recommended, his approach lets your play really early on and is A LOT of fun!
By Keith Roberts on 12/13/2020
Arthur has a friendly and engaging style. I really enjoyed the course
By David on 11/24/2020
Awesome!
By Luc Van Doren Milhim on 11/12/2020
I can not say much about this course yet. But what I can do is talking about my experience with other course of Arthur. And one word keeps coming to my mind and it is "excellent". Excellent teacher, excellent courses, excellent build up of the courses, excellent etc... The courses are fun to do because you learn playing from the beginning and you feel yourself improving fast... Highly recommendable
By Neal Turner on 10/24/2020
Excellent course
By Ashok Mistri on 9/27/2020
He explained very well
By Glenn Wissocki on 9/26/2020
I have a basic knowledge of chord piano, and found the course so far to be rather basic, but a good, simple foundation to proceed from.
By Paimon Alipour on 9/20/2020
Explains things in a way thats easy to understand
By Akash Sharma on 9/18/2020
No complaints from the course. It builds up slowly and final product is quite fruitful.
By Sarah Stokes on 9/17/2020
So far a bit easy ask know this, but Im watching it in case I miss anything! Hoping it will get more challenging soon
By Julia Gill on 9/1/2020
As i have previous knowledge of the piano, I knew this information but it was very well presented and excellent for a beginner.
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Overall Score : 96 / 100












